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How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen's own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia

  • Written by Mahad Darar, Ph.D. Student of Political Science, Colorado State University
imageA poster of rebel leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi is held aloft during anti-Israel protests in Yemen.Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles and drones at Israel on Oct. 31, 2023 – provoking fears of a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict.

With the militia – which controls part of the Arabian...

Read more: How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen's own civil war – and could put...

Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes

  • Written by Michael Vicente Perez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis
imageChildren sitting near their home at al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 20, 2020.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the Israeli military began bombing the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, 2023, in retaliation for a surprise attack by Hamas...

Read more: Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes

Friendship research is getting an update – and that's key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic

  • Written by Jessica D. Ayers, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, Boise State University
imageDespite stereotypes to the contrary, men can prefer close, one-on-one friendships.Westend61 via Getty Images

The benefits of friendship go far beyond having someone to confide in or spend time with – it can also protect you from physical and mental health problems. For example, people with good friends recover more quickly from illnesses and s...

Read more: Friendship research is getting an update – and that's key for dealing with the loneliness epidemic

Endometriosis afflicts millions of women, but few people feel comfortable talking about it

  • Written by Kristina S. Brown, Professor and Chair of Couple and Family Therapy, Adler University
imageEndometriosis pain can be so severe that it impairs a person's ability to keep up with school, succeed at work or have a satisfying sex life.Kinga Krzeminska/Moment via Getty Images

Endometriosis causes physical, sexual and emotional pain. About 190 million people around the globe have endometriosis, including one in 10 American women, but there...

Read more: Endometriosis afflicts millions of women, but few people feel comfortable talking about it

Despite his government's failure to anticipate Hamas' deadly attack, don't count Netanyahu out politically

  • Written by Brent E Sasley, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington

Since the brutal Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, news analysts and the public have focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his role in the intelligence failure that preceded the attack, in which 1,400 people were killed.

In other parliamentary democracies, a failure of this magnitude would normally cost leaders their jobs,...

Read more: Despite his government's failure to anticipate Hamas' deadly attack, don't count Netanyahu out...

What exactly caused the explosion at a hospital in Gaza? Without an independent, credible investigation, it will be hard for everyone to agree

  • Written by Stefan Schmitt, Project Lead for International Technical Forensic Services, Florida International University

The blast at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital’s parking lot on Oct. 17, 2023, has become a flash point in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

While Israel denies any responsibility for the explosion and disputes the number of people killed in the blast, Hamas continues to fault Israel for the explosion, which it says killed about...

Read more: What exactly caused the explosion at a hospital in Gaza? Without an independent, credible...

Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work

  • Written by Bruce Drushel, Professor of Media, Journalism and Film, Miami University
imageThe man at the center of the news.Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG via Getty Images

When businesspeople retire at an advanced age, it seldom makes headlines.

But when 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced in September that he was stepping away from his multicontinent media empire and turning it over to his son Lachlan, it was breaking news that generated...

Read more: Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work

Cancer has many faces − 5 counterintuitive ways scientists are approaching cancer research to improve treatment and prevention

  • Written by Vivian Lam, Associate Health and Biomedicine Editor
imageCancer cells don't follow the typical rules that allow a multicellular collective to function.Dr. Cecil Fox/National Cancer Institute

How researchers conceptualize a disease informs how they treat it. Cancer is often described as uncontrollable cell growth triggered by genetic damage. But cancer can also be seen from angles that emphasize...

Read more: Cancer has many faces − 5 counterintuitive ways scientists are approaching cancer research to...

A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain

  • Written by Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThe New York Rens played from 1923 to 1948.Black History Heroes/Twitter

For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises.

In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history.

In late 2002, the NBA awarded an expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats, to Black Entertainment Television...

Read more: A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain

American individualism lives on after death, as consumers choose new ways to put their remains to rest

  • Written by Diana Blaine, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageLifeGem is a company that extracts carbon from cremated human remains and transforms it into diamonds to remember loved ones. Handout/LifeGem via Getty Images

Death may be inevitable and universal, but the ways people deal with it most certainly are not. Whether doing Tibetan Buddhist sky burials, attending a graveside service dressed in black or...

Read more: American individualism lives on after death, as consumers choose new ways to put their remains to...

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  1. Language induces an identity crisis for the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants
  2. 3 reasons the House GOP is not any more dysfunctional than the Democrats − even after the prolonged speaker chaos
  3. Young, female voters were the key to defeating populists in Poland's election – providing a blueprint to reverse democracy's decline
  4. Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level
  5. Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes the fascist commitment to a destructive and bloody rebirth of society
  6. From India and Taiwan to Tibet, the living assist the dead in their passage
  7. Workplace discrimination saps everyone's motivation − even if it works in your favor
  8. How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween's theme song
  9. Jewish response to Hamas war criticism comes from deep sense of trauma, active grief and fear
  10. Collaborative water management can be a building block for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
  11. Palestinian Christians and Muslims have lived together in the region for centuries − and several were killed recently while sheltering in the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius
  12. Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween'
  13. In the Israel-Hamas war, children are the ultimate pawns – and ultimate victims
  14. This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings
  15. United Auto Workers union hails strike-ending deals with automakers that would raise top assembly-plant hourly pay to more than $40 as 'record contracts'
  16. Violent and disturbing war images from the Mideast can stir deep emotions − a PTSD expert explains how to protect yourself and your kids from overexposure
  17. Louisiana's 'In God We Trust' law tests limits of religion in public schools
  18. White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments
  19. How to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts
  20. Asteroids in the solar system could contain undiscovered, superheavy elements
  21. Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most 'authentic' social media platform
  22. A Halloween party in Boston turned ugly when a gang hurled antisemitic slurs and attacked Jewish teenagers
  23. AIs could soon run businesses – it’s an opportunity to ensure these 'artificial persons' follow the law
  24. 'I see no happy ending' − a former national security leader on the Gaza hostage situation
  25. Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school standards was not led by white conservatives but by Black and Latino parents
  26. UN warns that Gaza desperately needs more aid − an emergency relief expert explains why it is especially tough working in Gaza
  27. I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors
  28. To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close look at liquor in literature
  29. Public schools and faith-based chaplains: Texas’ new combination is testing the First Amendment
  30. Turkey faces competing pressures from Russia and the West to end its 'middleman strategy' and pick a side on the war in Ukraine
  31. FDA advisory panel's conclusion that oral phenylephrine is ineffective means consumers need to think twice when buying cold and flu meds
  32. How often do you lie? Deception researchers investigate how the recipient and the medium affect telling the truth
  33. New House Speaker Mike Johnson leads a GOP majority weakened by decades of declining party authority
  34. When communities face drinking-water crises, bottled water is a 'temporary' solution that often lasts years − and worsens inequality
  35. Polls have value, even when they are wrong
  36. Antisemitism has moved from the right to the left in the US − and falls back on long-standing stereotypes
  37. What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
  38. Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
  39. From morgue to medical school: Cadavers of the poor, Black and vulnerable can be dissected without consent
  40. Israeli invasion of Gaza likely to resemble past difficult battles in Iraq and Syria
  41. TCUS senior editor Kalpana Jain explores Indigenous communities in Indonesia − and learns about their struggles to reclaim land
  42. Are ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence
  43. Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of legitimacy
  44. The Rio Grande isn't just a border – it's a river in crisis
  45. Backlash to the oil CEO leading the UN climate summit overlooks his ambitious agenda for COP28 – and concerns of the Global South
  46. Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but these aren't the most expensive materials used in science
  47. How 'La Catrina' became the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead
  48. Hot-button topics may get public attention at the Vatican synod, but a more fundamental issue for the Catholic Church is at the heart of debate
  49. GOP's House paralysis is a crisis in a time of crises
  50. The Israel-Hamas war deepens the struggle between US and Iran for influence in the Middle East